17 Movie Villains Who Completely Ruined Your Childhood
2. Princess Mombi - Return To Oz
Following the positively lightweight horror of The Wizard Of Oz, this mind-bending follow-up casts aside any shade of happiness its predecessor had in store for Dorothy, who winds up in a psychiatric hospital biting down on the belt as she has Oz shocked out of her, suggesting that the "cure" for imagination is huge doses of medical electricity, apparently. The genesis of Princess Mombi probably stemmed from her scariest sequence and the rest of her monstrous character was fleshed out from there. The worlds ugliest princess, she at least had the gumption to realise her aesthetic shortcomings and therefore ordered the beheading of Ozs dancing slave girls so she could keep their heads to switch with her own inferior head depending on her mood for the day. If youve never seen Return To Oz, then it's worth watching, particularly if youre babysitting noisy children who will immediately be instilled with the kind of fears that Mombi inspired first time round when she chased Dorothy, minus her head, through the mirrored corridor. Further proof, if ever if it were needed, that neither ugly people nor particularly good-looking people should ever be trusted.
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